country into default, destroy the u.s. credit rating. terrorists with one purpose. to bring down, not just this administration, but let's face it. the american government. just watch. and the fact is the likelihood out there is this crew could be the one that crashes the republican convention next time. and that fortunately could be the end of them. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. thanks, chris. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, the boss speaks. it's been a question for awhile now. why do republicans refuse to compromise? to get past their own interests for the good of the country. now in an interview, the boss of the party explains why. the republican boss isn't speaker boehner. it's not senator mitch mcconnell either. the person calling the shots for the gop is rush limbaugh. and rush makes it clear that he

is against anything the democrats want to do. >> are you suggesting republicans shouldn't negotiate and have bipartisan approach with democrats? >> well, yeah pretty much. i'm about defeating them. not compromising with them. it's not a debacle of shut down the government. you're certainly not going to eradicate poverty by creating dependency. santa claus is not a cure for poverty. it isn't going to happen. >> this is why the republicans hate the word compromise. this is where they get their deeply unfair scheme to shut down the government. this is the inspiration for the relentless war on the poor. rush limbaugh runs today's republican party. and the republicans in congress know they better tow the line. >> the media has aligned with obama to defeat republicans. >> the focus of this

administration as they attempt to annihilate the republican party. >> he never appears to be governing. >> the president is finished with governing. >> i'm about defeating them. not compromising with them. >> so you did compromise. >> we found common ground. >> why won't you say -- you're afraid of the word. >> i reject the word. >> speaker boehner must be attending rush limbaugh's speech writing workshops. one by one, the gop mimic what rush says. but what might even be worse, they refuse to denounce his ugly talk that pollutes our political conversation. >> we have a name for michelle, moochelle. mooch, mooch, moochello obama. he's a street thug. as a community organizer that's what you are. you're a street thug.

there is a gay mafia that has inflicted the fear of death, political death in the republican party. as the cdc ever published a story of the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens. 2016, waiting to happen. that is if obama decides to abdicate. obama may not give up the crown. just like queen elizabeth. >> there you go, gop. that's your leader. good luck. joining me now is karen finney and joy reid. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. >> great to be here. >> what are the implications of rush calling the shots for the gop? i mean, you just heard moochelle, the president's a thug. i mean, what are the implications of that guy's influence on the republican party? >> the implications, we've seen it. the merger of the entertainment

complex on the right with the republican party which started in '04 but really solidified with the 2008 campaign. the results of it were they lost. then they doubled down on it in 2012. to the point where elected republicans are afraid to even oppose this guy. they're afraid to even denounce the most extreme things he said. he is now as you said their boss. and the merger of the two together has resulted in defeat and it will keep resulting in defeat. >> we're not talking about some long time ago stuff that he said 15, 20 years ago and regret. this is recent stuff. >> like yesterday. >> this is like yesterday stuff. >> remember when he called sandra fluke horrible words? no republican leader was willing to stand up and say, you know what rush? that's over the line. they never are. and when you talk to republicans privately in washington, d.c. -- >> he used the word -- >> a slut basically. >> but they can denounce rappers

who i disagree with their words. but i disagree with rush and them saying inappropriate things. >> he has said inappropriate things for years and they have been afraid to take him on and to stand up to him. they will tell you privately it's because they know at the kwoer of the base of their party follows rush. they cannot afford to anger that part of their base. they'll say you know why we can't take on rush. that's wrong. if he's going to be out there and you let this man have this much power, then you've got to own it. they try to have it both ways. >> if you don't want to own it, then own him. if you don't want to disown him, then fine. i'm going to give you the ownership papers. i mean, even president obama has talked about the influence of rush limbaugh. watch this. it says -- i'm quoting the

president. he says if a republican member of congress is not punished on fox news or by rush limbaugh for working with a democrat on a bill of common interest, then you'll see more of them doing it. this is the president assessing. >> absolutely. he included fox news because you have roger ails. it's a whole -- >> rush is all of that by himself. >> and the different -- i think what's happened is that the republican party used to have a part of its base that was the archie bunker base. that is their base. they haven't been able to grow the party by adding younger voters or minorities or single women. so they're down just to archie bunker. that's who he plays to. they can't afford to alienate his base, that's all they've got. >> what does it mean for the president's agenda? we're looking at obama care as it's called. we're looking at immigration.

we're looking at voting rights. what does this kind of mentality in charge of the party mean toward that agenda? >> i think it means exactly the clip you showed where john boehner can't say the word compromise which i've got to tell you, remember everything i need to know i learned in kindergarten. sharing, being nice to other people. i feel those are the basic values that we learn. so when you have this house speaker unable to say the word compromise when talking about working with the president, that's the impact that it's having on the president's agenda. you're seeing it now every day in what the tea party folks are doing. when they talk about defeat, rush limbaugh said it. you hear it from cruz, rubio, republican house members. defeating the president is their goal. even b at the expense of the united states of america and our constitution and the good of our people. >> and the good of our people. let me go to that. last night, the same interview. none of this is dated stuff. this is last night. i want you to hear what rush limbaugh said about the poor

last night. >> look at poverty in this country. everybody out of work is eating. they've got big screen tv, probably have a car, probably have a cell phone that they're using. and they got a place to live. being out of work is not poverty. it is true that the unemployed are eating for 99-plus weeks and watching big screen tv or some kind of tv. >> i mean, limbaugh seems to despise the poor. it's such -- but he's despised them seemingly as much as the house does. because look at their food stamp plan. it would result in over $20 billion in cuts. it would mean that 5.1 million people would be eliminated from the program. so you can dismiss rush as just entertainment. if you were looking at 5 million people taken off of food stamps

and $20 billion in cuts. you can do that if you believe they're all riding in cars and sitting back looking at wide screen tvs. i mean, this is absolutely absurd. >> we're not making you grub for food on the ground. come on. and the thing is, it would just be entertainment if you didn't have people like koch brothers running the agenda -- >> they support it basically. >> exactly. and the corner stone of their party is getting rid of child labor laws, putting us back into the time of america that they thought was good. >> this is an old play for the republicans. this us versus them. we've seen them scapegoat latinos, gay people, and now it seems like it's the war on the poor. what have we been hearing for two years? makers versus takers. who's deserving and who's not? you heard paul ryan talk a lot about deserving and not deserving. and laced within that is some of

this very classic sort of war on the poor, a lot of times it feels like they're trying to insinuate it's people of color. and a level of irresponsibility. rather than -- and they are so out of touch with how people are living their lives in this country. and the fact that food stamps actually kept some people out of poverty in the last couple of years who yes they were working but they needed a little bit of help. isn't that what our country's about? >> let me be clear. i have no problem people fighting for what they believe. i'm passionate about what i believe. but the president of the united states won the election. he got over 60 million votes and you won't compromise? you're not just telling a man you won't compromise. you're telling the majority of voting americans we don't care what you say. we're not going to work with you to make a better country. and that they need to be held accountable for. karen finney and joy reid thank you for your time this evening.

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wasting the country's time by taking something like 40 meaningless votes to repeal obama care is not a jobs plan. that's not a jobs plan. >> house republicans will hold their vote to repeal on friday. it will be one of their last votes before they go on vacation for the rest of the summer. taking a big break of doing all that nothing they've been doing.

politico reports speaker boehner is planning more votes targeting obama care for the fall. it's a waste of time and money. attacking the law even as it goes into effect. but ted cruz and some other republicans in congress want to try to stop the law by shutting down the government. taking a cue from boss lum bimb. >> even if you don't have a chons to stop it, why not make a stand, tell people who you are as republicans, as conservatives. they've never had a greater chance to contrast who they are with liberal democrats than what's happening now. >> by all means, republicans, show the american people who you are. tell seniors they should pay more for prescription drugs. tell people with pre-existing conditions. tell voters premiums should be

higher. sounds like a great losing agenda for the 2014 election. joining me now is angela rye and ed rendell. thank you both for joining me. >> thank you, rev. >> governor rendell, at this rate will republicans still be trying to repeal obama care 50 years from now? >> perhaps. however when president obama leaves office i believe it will end. it's not just on a substantive basis. i think the american people have a basic sense of fairness. even if they agree with the plan, they know that as you said this is a waste of money. and if they shut the government down because of this, i think they risk an incredible wrath coming from the average american. even americans who don't necessarily like the president's health care plan. they don't want politics like this. it's everything that's bad about politics. and it is, in fact, showing people who the republicans are.

>> showing who they really are. >> they're mean spirited and they don't care about doing anything to help the people of this country. >> you know, angela, the right wing brain trust is all in agreement with shutting down the government over health care. sarah palin says it's common sense. sean hannity says it's a no brainer. but "the washington post" reports a government shutdown wouldn't effect the implementation of obama care at all. that according to a new congressional service report that says that. now, the question is so the gop's big plan is to take down obama care is really a dud. >> there's no question about it. not by any means partisan or biased. for them to come out with this report saying this will no way impact how obama care is rolled

out and the fact that the implementation will continue even with their strategies to try to defund it. it's insane to me that even at this point you have folks on the right who are saying we will hold out and we will defund the government just to shut down obama care even more. despite the fact they've taken all these votes. 50 years later will we still be voting to repeal obama care? maybe not, but that's their strategy. >> no doubt about it. a few republicans, governor, have even said they would refuse to help their constituencies for signing up for obama care. but paul ryan had a different take. listen to this. >> are you going to be helping constituent services much in the way with social security and medicare? >> we always help any constituent with any help with the federal government. anybody who has a problem with

the federal government we're going to help them because that's my job. >> first of all, the weight of this, imagine some republican lawmakers saying they will not help their constituents in getting and applying and doing what is necessary to get health care. at least paul ryan who i don't usually agree with, at least he wouldn't go this far, that far. but there are actually some legislators, some lawmakers saying they won't help their constituents get health care. >> that's not surprising to me because you've got some republican governors. usually the ones interested in being president or vice president who are refusing to take the medicaid money. even though that's not going to save a dime. and their taxpayers are going to be paying for it. and in pennsylvania, for example, 600,000 people will not get medicaid coverage if the governor doesn't accept the medicaid money from the federal government. and $1.2 billion a year will not

come into the state. and our hospitals will lose $100 million a year. now, that's an incredible price to pay for an ideological stand. >> but the clock is against the republicans. let me show you angela what i'm talking about. on new year's day next year, election day 2014 could see that obama care will go into effect on new year's day. on new year's day we will have lower premiums, more people covered, lower drug costs for seniors, coverage for pre-existing conditions. now, how do the republicans run against that on election day in november when just around the corner all of these things will go into effect? how do they run against that? >> they really can't, rev. that's just the thing. they are so anti-obama care. they've gone from the no party to the hell no party. it's so extreme. they are forgetting the fact

that american people vote by their pockets. they vote on tax credits. they vote on whether or not they've been able to save money. whether or not they've felt any type of economic relief. and what's more outrageous is i don't know if these folks forgot what happened in their capitol hill orientation or for some of the newer members like cruz if they missed it altogether. the hill works by you pass a bill, it gets signed into law, and they have to get reauthorized. instead of repealing them why aren't they focusing on an amendment strategy? it's ridiculous. we've got things like gun control and all these things that need to take place. >> i'm going to have to leave it there, but you're right. thank you governor rendell, angela rye. thank you both for you time tonight. >> thanks, rev. >> have a good night. still ahead, we'll go inside president obama's new strategy for beating the do nothing republicans and moving the country forward. you might be surprised by what he has up his sleeve.

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>> jobs, middle class, growth. >> the president is comfort in their message. he's been hammering away in speeches all across the country. going right after republicans for standing in the way. >> it's an immigration bill that economists say is going to boost our economy. but so far there's a faction of house republicans who won't let the bill go to the floor for a vote. we've seen republicans in the house in particular who suggest they wouldn't vote to pay the very bills congress has racked up. i don't want to go through the same old arguments where i propose an idea and the republicans say no just because it's my idea. >> the president is fed up with the gop's obstruction. today politico says he's adopting a no-congress strategy.

he's about to go around republicans with a surge of actions and orders. on issue after issue. and he's not alone. progressive groups are planning a month of direct action making sure august gets even hotter for republicans trying to explain to voters back home why they're not doing their jobs. joining me now are michelle cottle and jonathan capehart. thanks for coming of the show. >> thanks, rev. >> thanks. >> michelle, is there now an effort to exert maximum force on republicans in congress. >> well, it is an effort to go around them definitely. and i think ever since the election the obama team has made clear they think their man does better when he plays the outside game. you know, i'm sure everybody is familiar with these e-mails that are going out with the

organizing for america groups that are telling people for the august action month they need to get out and pressure their congressman and tell them what they want done and to oppose gridlock. and it's this kind of outside strategy, take it to the voters thing that the white house has decided is their best bet. because they feel like every time they've reached out, they got brushed back. so they're tired of playing. >> you know, jon than, john boehner was questioned today on the push on jobs and the economy watch this. >> do you think the president now with this campaign trying to put on the defensive? >> i'm not going to speak for what the president is doing or why he's doing it. if i had poll numbers as low as his, i'd probably be out doing the same thing. >> i actually broke out laughing out loud. has boehner seen his poll numbers lately and the poll numbers for congress? the president is at 48% positive rating.

boehner's at 18%. i mean, i don't know if he was joking or delirious, jonathan. >> me either. but it begs the question so why isn't speaker boehner out there touting a jobs plan? touting an alternative to obama care which he keeps allowing to go to the floor to be repealed for it to go nowhere. i mean, speaker boehner -- poor, speaker boehner. he's in a tough position. we all know why. i think the president is right to try to go around congress. and in fact, let's keep something in mind. the president has tried to work with republicans and work with congress since he walked into the white house especially since the democrats lost the house to the detriment of his base. the base was yelling at the for why was he trying to work with people that didn't want to work with him? many times the president adopted republican ideas in a hope it would lure them to the table to actually, you know, do the

act -- the art of governing. to not let it happen. so in the second term, the president and the administration have decided they're not going to play the game anymore. especially since the president has built up a lot of political capitol in the minds of voters. >> but i want people to understand, michelle, that we're talking about some very substantive serious issues that he can deal with with executive ortder. the actions will cover grounds like voting rights, health care, job creation, economy, climate change, immigration. these actions can touch on some very serious and needed issues without the congress blocking them. >> exactly. and i think he's deciding he talked about this. got out there on gun control and they're talking about doing more recess appointments. they basically come to the realization that especially in the house the republicans have made it clear that they have no

intention of passing anything. the speenger has come out and said that their job is to repeal laws, not pass laws. so obama is on some level just doing the sensible thing when he has kind of thrown up his hands and said fine we're going to find another way to do this. >> you know, jonathan, when michelle brings that up he being the president has been calling republicans for failing to put forward a real idea or set of ideas on the economy. they've just been repeal, repeal. no real ideas on their economy. watch this comment by the president. >> i say to these members of congress, i'm laying out my ideas to give the middle class a better shot. now it's time for you to lay out your ideas. you can't just be against something. you got to be for something. >> is this is a preview of the

2014 campaign slogan and motto that they are just against something, they're not for something, they don't have a plan. is that 2014 we're seeing there? >> if the democrats are smart, they'll make it part of their mantra and plan for 2014. when voters send members to congress, send them to the building behind me, they send them here to actually do something. to make things better. to solve the problems -- the many problems that this country is facing. they want washington to do something. those republican members of congress have to go back to their districts and have basically nothing to run on. does it really work? maybe it does in hypergerrymandered districts where they can go back and say what i did was try to repeal obama care for the 40th time. in the country as a whole when

people go to the voting booths and -- the democrats' mantra is where the republican plans, it could work. >> it could. and i think that americans can get very excited about some of the things that can actually happen with this strategy of using executive action. michelle cottle, jonathan capehart, thank you for your time tonight. coming up, some on the right continue polluting and distorting an honest conversation on race. i'll show you why their lectures aren't worth listening to. she's always been able to brighten your day.

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president obama has called on the nation to have a serious conversation on race. and we're starting to see that happen. with democrats in congress holding a hearing on race and justice in america. >> racism is present in every one of our communities.

we need to be conscious of that and confront it. that's why i think this conversation is so important. >> the conversation is important. and it's time to look for solutions. >> we must get serious about acknowledging the impact of racial profiling, violence, and inequitable treatment under the law is having on our communities. >> congresswoman fudge is right. the hearing also tackled unfairness in education. >> if you are a black child in a school, you are likely to have a teacher who has a lower expectation of your academic performance. >> getting the conversation started. the first step in making change. but to have the o'reilly, hannity crowd, it was just an excuse to distort. >> nancy pelosi going to the aid of the grievance industry. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo.

today the house democratic steering in policy committee headed by mrs. pelosi held hearings entitled racism in america. many people believe it especially overseas where they don't understand the race hustle is all about. >> the same stuff we've heard the right for weeks. >> obama is all about creating chaos and upsetting the order of things. >> the man who is supposed to unite the united states of america is an expert on the most divisive form of politics in existence today. >> the problem is these talkers come at these issues from a strange, odd view of the world. i mean, should we really take advice from someone who said this about visiting a restaurant in harlem?

>> there wasn't one person in sylvia's who was screaming m-fer i want more iced tea. you know, i mean, it was like going into an italian restaurant in an all white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there and they were ordering and having fun and it wasn't any kind of craziness at all. >> or would you listen when this guy calls someone divisive? >> this president i think has exposed himself as a guy who over and over again has a deep seeded hatred for white people. >> and advice from this guy? >> in obama's america, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering right on, right on, right on. >> everyone allowed to have their own opinion. clearly these guys do. but they have some knowledge, i

would hope, at least they should be about at least what they're talking about. joining me now is eric walert, senior fellow at media matters and msnbc contributor goldie taylor. thank you both for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> goldie, they mock the conversation but have no credibility on race issues. what's your reaction? >> you know, it harkens back to less dramatics who bill o'reilly reminds me of. said that he was divisive and bad for america. so we're hearing the same rhetoric play itself out today. i think that it's unfortunate, really, that we're at a time in this country where we've advanced so far in terms of human and civil rights in this country and yes we do have quite a ways to go. it's quite unfortunate to find these kinds of voices really sort of holding that conversation back, keeping it

off the table and keeping us more and more divided. >> you know, eric, you track these guys. what is the strategy here? >> the strategy that we've seen the last couple weeks -- in the trial and verdict. so they wanted to expand that into a discussion about race. it was another opportunity to do a lot of divisive race baiting. they have done it since obama was inaugurated. that is the theme. that is the thread that runs through all of this. there are two targets. fox news has announced are open season on. muslims and blacks. that's the thread, right? obama might be muslim. obama's the first black president. they have used that for -- >> and this is consistent. >> for five years. and it's open season on all of them. and it is an attempt to free content with just race baiting. and talking about a conversation, what was the announcement after the george zimmerman verdict.

racism doesn't exist. why do we have to have a conversation that doesn't exist. if you talk about it you're a race hustler. >> and you won't deal with issues like black crime or like things in the family. when, you know, goldie when a 15-year-old black girl was killed earlier this year in chicago hadiya pendelton, on this show months before bill o'reilly and those discovered violence in chicago. two days after she was killed we had her mother on the show to talk about it. watch this. >> she was amazing. she had a heart the size of -- she just had a major heart. she had a huge heart. she didn't want to be anything more than what she was. and that was 15. just what i mean by that is -- >> go ahead, please. >> you know, she had aspirations of being an adult, but she was just 15 and enjoying it.

i used to talk to her about these years being some of the best years of your life. get in there and enjoy them. you're going to make a difference. she was just special. >> i mean, we dealt with that issue right there with hadiya. the first lady went to her funeral. they were guests. we dealt with this issue. we dealt last year when people said let's talk about newtown. they discovered it just so they seemingly didn't have to deal with the issues around the zimmerman trial that had nothing to do with what we all are talking about in terms of crime in places like chicago. so there's a strategy here to distract. >> well, you know, i think we can't legislate how someone feels in their heart. we can't legislate away bigotry or racism. what we can do, though, is to

keep those things from playing themselves out in public policy. so we can keep them from overpolicing our neighborhoods and overcriminalizing our children and creating a school to prison pipeline. so we can keep them from passing onerous or draconian voter suppression laws. and so while i cannot legislate what happens in the heart of man kind, i can legislate how that plays out and how that keeps people from reaching their full potential in these united states. i think that's our real job here. for their part, you know, this is about economics. this is about driving fear and getting more viewers to tune in every night. >> while they accuse others of an industry -- >> while they accuse others of -- >> when the president was addressing the country on race, hannity even managed to smear trayvon martin, a dead young man, while he was dealing with the president's address. watch this.

>> now the president is saying trayvon could have been be 35 years ago. oh, that's -- this is a particularly helpful comment. is that the president admitting that i guess because what? he was part of the gang and he smoked pot and did a little blow? >> so you're talking about the president part of a gang and all of this. and saying in effect trayvon martin was some kind of drug user upon his death. yet they want to call other people names and when you can be that insensitive to a young man who clearly did nothing wrong and was killed. >> right. i mean, president obama waited a few days after the zimmerman verdict, offered up his personal reflections on what the trial and the verdict meant to the african-american community. he literally was not done speaking when people like hannity and right wing fear amongers were denouncing him as race baiter in chief. they claim they want to have a conversation. they absolutely don't want to

have a conversation. it goes back to the radical notion they put forward that racism doesn't exist so there doesn't have to be a conversation. but again, hannity wanting to tie obama to trayvon and drugs and gangs. they're incapable of dealing with race particularly when there's a black democratic president. >> what is it? you know this has gotten very personal and venomous. >> it has. this has gone off the charts in the last few weeks. i think it's in need of a summer story. they need something to scare people about. they -- look. it's a fact. >> that's really cynical of them. >> their audience is white and elderly. that is a fact. "new york times" wrote about it recently. >> you know, goldie, john lewis is the only surviving member of the main big six sponsors of the march on washington 50 years ago. he'll be speaking at our march in august of this year.

let me show you what he said today about what we face 50 years later. >> violence, poverty, hunger, long-term unemployment, homelessness, voting rights, and the need to protect human dignity. we have come a great distance, but we are not finished yet. for a struggle is not a struggle that lasts one day, one week, one month, or one year. it is a struggle of a lifetime to redeem the soul of america. >> so john lewis who was beat on the bridge 48 years ago to lead to the voting rights act, who was the speaker with dr. king and others 50 years ago and will be standing with us now. i would rather take his word for the fact that we still have things to do than to take the word of someone who was surprised in a restaurant in harlem that people weren't yelling yo m-fer i need iced

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it's time for reply al. remember, friend or foe i want to know. john writes how do people like me in a blue state influence the people that are in a red state and a red state of mind? well, you know, many years ago before my time people from the north used to go to the south to help the civil rights movement. you live in a time where you can get on sites, you can go on the web, you can use technology to straighten out lies to post the

truth to post answers, participate huge technology. come to rallies, come to marches, be apart of exposing the truth. because many people with a red state of mind just never hear the truth from others that look at things and say i'm going to talk about what is, not what i fantasize. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. weiner schnitzal. let's play "hardball." ♪ >> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start -- this story amazes me. i've worked in politics for a long time, and that said, i've never stuff like this that's coming out just tonight and i think in politics, left right and crazy and never heard stuff like this coming out of the weiner operation. it is unbelievable.